John Ashbery

Bookworm

John Ashbery

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Published on May 17, 2007, 2:30:00 PM
Total time: 00:28:30

Episode Description

A Worldly Country (Ecco)
In this landmark conversation, John Ashbery talks about his fascination with nonsense and fantasy, beginning with Lewis Carroll's Alice books. Those books involve incomprehension, parody and an extreme use of non sequitur--qualities that for Ashbery define the way we live now.

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